Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Marriage

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

11.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

12.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

13.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

14.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

19.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

20.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

37.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

45.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

46.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis